DBMS > Greenplum vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. NuoDB vs. OpenEdge vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Greenplum vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. NuoDB vs. OpenEdge vs. Spark SQL

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Name

Description

Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database

A logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	8.37
Rank	#48	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

greenplum.org

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.progress.com/openedge

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

docs.greenplum.org

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

doc.nuodb.com

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

Pivotal Software Inc.

Microsoft

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Progress Software Corporation

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2005

1989

2013

1984

2014

Current release

7.0.0, September 2023

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

since Version 4.2

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

Users and groups

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